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The expanded range of economic analysis of law was facilitated by the
expanding application of the economist's model of rational choice to nonmarket
behavior. Lately the range and depth of the economic approach to law. 6. See
Barbara Fried, The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement (1998); Ian Ayres, "Discrediting the Free
Market," 66 University of Chicago Law Review 273 (1999). 7. R. H. Coase, "The
Problem of Social ...

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For an excellent summary of this line of argument, see Barbara Fried, The Progressive Assault on Laissez-Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement 29-107 (1998). For canonical original statements, see
Robert L. Hale, Freedom Through Law: Public Control of Private Governing
Power 3-34, 385-99 (1952) (diagnosing property rights as establishing economic
relationships of reciprocal threat and exploring modes oflegal mitigation and
equalization of threat); ...